as in teenager
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Recent Examples of tween
The production design might be a little scary for younger kids, but tweens could be swept away.
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Vulture Editors, Vulture, 23 July 2025
Now tweens skip straight from kids’ clothes to shopping alongside college students and adults.
—Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
Age is usually given as a number or as a life stage, like baby, infant, toddler, preschooler, grade-schooler, tween and teen.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2025
If you haven’t been yet inducted into the Roller Rabbit squad (colony?), a brief introduction: The brand has become an absolute obsession on social media in the past few years, especially among tween and teen girls.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 4 Aug. 2025
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Vulture Editors, Vulture, 23 July 2025
Now tweens skip straight from kids’ clothes to shopping alongside college students and adults.
—Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
Age is usually given as a number or as a life stage, like baby, infant, toddler, preschooler, grade-schooler, tween and teen.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2025
If you haven’t been yet inducted into the Roller Rabbit squad (colony?), a brief introduction: The brand has become an absolute obsession on social media in the past few years, especially among tween and teen girls.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 4 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tween
Noun
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Belmar Water Rescue entered the water in an attempt to locate the missing teenager, according to the police.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Warning signs of dating violence among teenagers include isolation, excessive messaging and attention, jealousy, name-calling, physical abuse and threats of self-harm or homicide, according to Burch.—
Quinlan Bentley,
The Enquirer,
16 Aug. 2025
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And just traveling the world with my kids and my wife, and being able to eat and explore different flavors with them, has turned into this.—
Kenneth J. Williams Jr,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Everyone says that about their kids, most of them are wrong.—
Erin Clack,
People.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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Research published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry estimates that about 1 to 3 percent of children and adolescents have OCD, with early-onset cases sometimes appearing before age 5.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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Older adults tend to have fewer moles than children, adolescents, and young adults.172 Family history: Moles tend to run in families.—
Carrie Madormo,
Health,
7 Aug. 2025
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Physical strength is also building for a youngster who only celebrated his 18th birthday this summer.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
16 Aug. 2025
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The place has a dark past, partly because of the local corn syrup factory burning down but also because of a violent clown named Frendo who stalks youngsters.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
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Responding officers found that two juveniles had been struck by a vehicle, Porcher said.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
19 Aug. 2025
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The county charges $110 per day for juveniles held in the JDC, which prompted Stone to suggest the same should apply to adults.—
Shelley Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Aug. 2025
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Gabriel Byrne shows up as a nasty villain known as the Chancellor, who has kidnaped the adorable moppet Ella (Ava Joyce McCarthy) and whisked her off to a bucolic Alpine village where a society of ruthless killers are able to raise, and train, their children in peace.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
6 June 2025
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The Girl with the Needle portrays that girl as a blonde moppet named Erena (Avo Knox Martin) to whom Karoline becomes a surrogate mother.—
Esther Zuckerman,
TIME,
6 Dec. 2024
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Jana Kramer wrote on Instagram of her eldest kiddos Jolie and Jace (seen with a friend and their baby brother Roman).—
Alex Apatoff,
People.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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This deal is especially great for any teachers restocking their classrooms—or parents whose kiddos manage to lose pencils with abandon.—
Louryn Strampe,
Wired News,
16 Aug. 2025
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Over the course of an episode, love seemed to be blooming for the pair amid their youthful excursions, which included pinball dates, scooter rides and splashing in kiddie pools.—
Nicole Briese,
People.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Drain Mosquitoes breed in standing water, so make sure to empty or cover birdbaths, kiddie pools, buckets, gutters or any other containers that hold water.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Tween.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tween. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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